Even though Little Grape had directly overwhelmed the pupil arts and instantly killed a pilgrim's corpse,
Yi Chen did not rush to climb the mountain. Instead, he returned to reunite with the team.
"Regan, what do you think?"
His slightly chubby fingers scraped across his cheek as he gave his analysis:
"The corpse is still a corpse. Those eyes are merely the mutated fusion of insect eyes that were swallowed into the body under the influence of the Gray Domain, using this corpse to piece themselves together and affect passing creatures.
"In essence, it is an abnormal pathological change primarily involving animals and insects. It has already lost the attributes of a human.
"As long as we take precautions in advance, it isn't much of a threat.
"This also explains why animal eyes and insect eyes have little effect on the pilgrims themselves... Perhaps what they need are human eyes.
"The pilgrims whose eyes were gouged out retained smiles when they died. Perhaps that was because they had achieved some goal, allowing someone to carry their eyeballs and continue this pilgrimage."
"Mm, that's what I thought too... Let's go."
Just as Yi Chen was about to continue up the mountain, Regan reached out and stopped him.
"Let me go first. These incomplete clusters of eyes are perfect for warming up... It's been almost a year since I left the city to fight the Sick Ones."
"Fine."
Yi Chen and Jin walked behind him. Jin did not insist on going first; she had no interest whatsoever in these inferior "corpse eye clusters."
Snap, snap, snap~
Explosive cracking sounds rang out intermittently along the perilous mountain path.
Whenever any corpse Regan passed showed the slightest abnormality, the cluster of eyes inside exploded before the rag covering it could even be removed.
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